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Goats are the lawnmowers of our non-mechanized future
The newest neighbors in one Maryland community walk on four legs, and spend most of their day devouring weeds. Urbana is using the goats to tackle its invasive plants problem.
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Here's a video of the Cheverly Chupacabra
Chain-smoking employees at Prince George's Hospital Center captured a hideous, hairless creature — a chupacabra, some say — in the woods where the exiled smokers congregate. And then, unbelievably, they let the rare specimen go, depriving it of years of torture at the hands of scientists.
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The heat wave is over! For today, anyway
Remember the 80s? Well, they're back, and the weather around D.C. today should be mighty pleasant indeed.
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Watch something called an 'X6.9-class flare' blast from the sun
Early on Aug. 9, 2011, the sun lashed out with its largest solar flare since 2006. Want to see what this X6.9-class fire beast looked like?
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iPhone app will prevent families from vanishing on the Mall
Have you ever found yourself lost on the National Mall, wondering what that enormous phallus is between 14th and 17th streets? Well, the National Park Service has created an iPhone app to cure you of your ignorance and directional ineptitude.
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D.C. will comb through your trash and fine you for not recycling
Recycling is one of those necessary evils. It can be tedious to sort through everything, but in the end, you're saving the environment — usually — so it's worth it. But it's not worth it when you're getting fined $200 because you threw a can of soda into the wrong container. Yes, that actually happened.
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Your obligatory morning story about the heat
Pack your inhalers! In addition to a heat advisory, which begins at 11 a.m., a code orange air quality alert has been issued for the Washington region today.
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Our waterways are being killed by chicken crap
Humans are eating more and more these days. Chicken consumption alone has doubled since the 1970s, and now, poultry waste is polluting the water in our region, according to a new report.
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Arlington is overrun with adorable little kittens
Sometime this spring, the cats ventured outside to enjoy the beautiful spring weather. They got together, as they are wont to do, and now there are lots of kittens in need of homes.
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A tiny beetle that devours trees has D.C. under quarantine
A shiny green beetle the size of a penny has D.C. under quarantine. The Emerald Ash Borer, an invasive wood beetle that's responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of U.S. ash trees, was spotted in Maryland.
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This might be the cutest way to grow herbs, ever
For those with a green thumb and no garden, this is your adorable answer.
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Invasive beetle invades our airports, farms, and stomachs
D.C.-area airports are already plagued by disease, birdstrikes and napping controllers. Now we have to worry about one of the world's most destructive insects, too.
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There's algae in the Potomac that's toxic enough to kill a dog
It's sketchy enough swimming in the Potomac River alongside snakeheads, dead lobsters and sex-changing fish. Now we have to worry about "potentially toxic blue-green algae" that causes nausea, vomiting and, in large doses, damage to the nervous system?
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The Humane Society doesn't know where to put all your abandoned pets
The Washington Humane Society is taking in a record 1,000 stray or abandoned animals a month. They don't know where to put all those cats and dogs, so you can get a discount if you adopt one.
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There was a cougar loose near Bill Gates
A cougar has been spotted in Medina, Washington - reportedly within a block of Bill Gates' home.
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Free Stuff 7/28/11
You can get passes for "The Change-Up" Tuesday, August 2nd at AMC Mazza Gallerie at 7:30pm. You MUST SEND YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS to arch@tbd.com by July 29th at Noon in order for a pass to be mailed to you in time. ONE entry per household.
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Md. is getting a whole bunch of solar panels, but not much cash
When it comes to public-private negotiations, it never hurts for a state to ask for more money. But it seems Maryland failed to do so before agreeing to a 20-year lease with a power company for a solar-panel farm.
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The Chesapeake is becoming more dead by the day
While the latest string of hot and humid weather have taken a toll on the area's residents, it's wreaking even more havoc on the already delicate Chesapeake Bay watershed.
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